Beautiful! Absolutely beautiful! Sometimes the socks vanish from the bathroom, even before the washing and drying. These days I try to stick to similar socks for each person - kind of colour-coded, so instead of 3 odd socks I can pretend 2 make a pair!

Dragonstar, we do that too. We buy a great big bag of all-the-same socks for each person in the family; each person has his own style of sock, and no matter how many get lost the survivors always match. We do the same thing with those knit winter gloves.

My 3 year old son tells me that when we are out of the house during the day his stuffed animal cat, Amber, is the culprit. He tells me that Amber hides the socks and that is why we can't find the matches.